HIGHLIGHTS
DISCIPULUS - A roadmap for the Digital Patient
3rd VPH study group on VPH Toolkit
Short film of the Virtual Physiological Human
Short film of the Digital Patient
Interface Focus special issue with best papers from the VPH2010 Conference
VPH Vision & Strategy Paper II
LATEST VPH EVENTS
- 05.06.2013 - 07.06.2013 ICCS 2013
Welcome to the home page of the Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence (VPH NoE) and information portal for the VPH Initiative


The VPH NoE is a project which aims to help support and progress European research in biomedical modelling and simulation of the human body. This will improve our ability to predict, diagnose and treat disease, and have a dramatic impact on the future of healthcare, the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
Latest News
Annual CLMS Symposium Announcement and Call for Abstracts
Sponsored by CLMS and the Crick Institute, the CLMS Symposium is a one-day event showcasing the role of information technology, including computer and computational sciences, across the broad range of life and medical (basic and clinical) sciences. The diverse programme aims to highlight to researchers across UCL, UCL Partners and the Crick the breadth of multi-disciplinary research currently being undertaken in the fields of computational life and medical sciences and to illustrate the value of collaboration across these fields.
The symposium will be held on UCL’s Bloomsbury Campus, London, UK on the 28th of June 2013
For more information, please visit the website
Postgraduate course on Translational and Integrative Bioinformatics
INBIOMEDvision are pleased to announce a postgraduate course on Translational and Integrative Bioinformatics, a 1-week course to be held in Barcelona (Spain) in April 2013. It is targeted to students with background on Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics, Medicine, Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Mathematics, Physics, Biomedical Engineering or related fields.
For more information, please visit www.inbiomedvision.eu, or contact
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The course is organised by INBIOMEDvision in collaboration with Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona Supercomputing Center(BSC), Spanish Technological Platform for Innovative Medicines (PTEMI), and The Spanish Institute of Bioinformatics (INB).
VPH2012 Theme Issue in Interface Focus
A new theme issue of the Journal of the Royal Society Interface Focus is available online (will be available in print: 6 April 2013). The issue, "The virtual physiological human: integrative approaches to computational biomedicine", was edited by Peter Coveney, Vanessa Diaz-Zuccarini, Norbert Graf, Peter Hunter, Peter Kohl, Jesper Tegner and Marco Viceconti. You can view the theme issue here, it contains selected papers from the VPH2012 conference.
Call for papers: ICTE 2013
The 3rd International Conference on Tissue Engineering (ICTE 2013) will take place at the Scholl of Technology and Management at Leiria, Portugal.
For more information, please visit the website
Latest Activity
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- Neelie Kroes' blog post on eHealth week 2013
Read Neelie Kroes' personal take on eHealth week (13-15 May 2013).
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AGE Platform Europe General Assembly, Brussels
- Study: Requirements and options for actions in RFID in healthcare
The study on the requirements and options for actions in RFID applications in healthcare delivery in Europe. (02-2008/07-2009)
HealthTech Wire - The Industry News
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